Gwalior-based ghee trader Goyal held under NSA

BHOPAL: The Gwalior district administration on Saturday arrested a ghee trader - Shivkumar Goyal - under National Security Act (NSA) and sent him to jail.

On August 30, Goyal's company - Chambal Dairy Products and its warehouse were raided by the state food department following a report from its Maharashtra counterparts that spurious ghee was supplied to the famed Sai Baba temple in Shirdi by this company. The report was enclosed with a complaint from the Shirdi Saibaba Trust. However, nothing substantial was found.

Two months later, the district administration confiscated 10,500 litres of ghee from the company's godown at Transport Nagar, Gwalior. Laboratory tests ascertained that the ghee were of substandard quality.

He has been arrested under Section 3 of the NSA as part of our on-going campaign against adulteration, Gwalior collector P Narhari, told TOI. The district administration has launched a campaign "Operation Visuddh" to check adulteration in food and drugs in the Gwalior.

According to the reports spurious ghee was supplied to the famed Sai Baba temple in Shirdi by this company